• @EmpathicVagrant
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    910 months ago

    “It may finally be happening!”

    I’ve heard that every election year since 2008, so I won’t expect to see it until several birthdays from now

    • @ripcord
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      10 months ago

      In how many of those election years had the DHHS finally asked the DEA to reclassify…?

      • @[email protected]
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        810 months ago

        I’ve noticed this vein of irrational cynicism before. Bad things happen, and therefore bad things will keep happening. I told people for years that it was already too late for Disney to extend copyright yet again; it takes too long to get anything through Congress. This Congress can barely elect a Speaker, but people were still arguing there’d be a last minute extension in the final weeks of 2023.

        Point is, cynicism shouldn’t replace clear thinking.

      • @EmpathicVagrant
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        310 months ago

        That’s valid, I just don’t know any world other than one manipulated for political gain or profit so I’m solidly in the ‘that would be amazing but I doubt it’ camp. I’d love to be wrong though.

      • prole
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        110 months ago

        Maybe not DHHS, but I remember countless articles about X agency recommending it, and nothing ever changed.

        I’m not agreeing with that person, I’m slightly optimistic about this time, but I’m not going to get my hopes up.